For Hegel, historical events must re-arise as speculative forms of thought
Evidence
But this feeling, exacerbated by modern philosophy, has ‘come to exist historically in the formative process of culture’. From this point on it will be the role of speculative philosophy to manifest it ‘in all its truth’: ‘The absolute Passion (absolute Leiden) or the speculative Good Friday, that was once an historical event … can and must arise again in the serene freedom of its form.’ — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 767
Categorization
- XREF: The re-arising of the historical as conceptual form connects to plasticity as the formation/deformation of figure — this is the conceptual core of Malabou’s project. — connects to: Hegel’s system contains a theory of the event
- QUESTION: Worth chasing: how does the historical event’s ‘re-arising’ in thought relate to the logic of repetition in Hegel’s speculative method?